So how do birds learn these songs in the first place?
How do they know to mimic the songs of their own species?
Are they born knowing how to sing?
A lot of what scientists know about bird song comes from studying zebra finches.
A baby male zebra finch typically learns to sing from its father or other males, starting while it’s still a fledgling in the nest.
First comes a sensory learning phase, when the baby finch hears the songs sung around it and commits them to memory.
